What made you want to take this course?
I wanted to take this course because designing online courses has always interested me. As an Instructional Designer for the last eight years, I have designed ILT courses, virtual classroom courses and online courses. I find the online courses the most interesting and sometimes the most challenging. I am completely self-taught in Instructional Design; I have learned through reading, exploration and others. Therefore, I am very interested in some formal instruction, as well as some new ideas because what has worked for the last eight years in online courses is not working anymore. There is more advanced technology plus more creative ways to create and take online courses. It is exciting to move past the page-turner world of online training!

What are three things that anyone knows you knows about you?
1. I am an artist with very little creativity. I can draw/paint anything but struggle to create the image in my head first.
2. My children are my life, almost to a fault. Hence, doing something for myself - taking graduate classes and hopefully applying them to a degree in instructional design.
3. I am very motherly, even though I am usually the youngest person on my teams at work, I am always the one they call "mom".